Thomas E. Joiner

Positive Emotions Trigger Upward Spirals Toward Emotional Well-Being

The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions predicts that positive emotions broaden the scopes of attention and cognition, and, by consequence, initiate upward spirals tow...

Age, period, and cohort trends in mood disorder indicators and suicide-related outcomes in a nationally representative dataset, 2005–2017.

Drawing from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; N = 611,880), a nationally representative survey of U.S. adolescents and adults, we assess age, period, and cohor...

Suicide Mortality and Coronavirus Disease 2019—A Perfect Storm?

Suicide rates have been rising in the US over the last 2 decades.The latest data available (2018) show the highest age-adjusted suicide rate in the US since 1941. 1 It is within...

Interaction of Cognitive Avoidance Coping and Stress in Predicting Depression/Anxiety